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SYMONDS’ AUTOBIOGRAPHY SENT TO AUSTRALIA LONDON, June 14. Dame Katherine Furse, Director of the World Bureau of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts, is Instituting an Australiawide search for two men whose names are unknown.
They possess a missing autobiography and personal papers which belonged to her father, John Addington Symonds, the English critic and poet.
Her father, on his death in 1893, left them to a friend, Horatio F. Brown, who died in 1926, leaving them to two nephews in Australia. Dame Katherine Furse wants the papers for memoirs, which she hopes to publish scon. J. A. .Symonds instructed that his autobiography should not be published till 1976, as it contains . intimate material concerning his contemporaries.
For many years Symonds spent the autumn in the house of .his friend, Horatio F. Brown, in Venice. He died at Rome on April 49. 1893, and was buried -close to Shelley. Horatio Brown was the author of a two-volume life of Symonds, published iii 1895.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 19980, 4 July 1939, Page 5
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